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G4 IVORTH CAKOLIXA BOARD OF HEALTH A new departure in the work will be the establishment of a line of temporary dispensaries or hospitals for the free examination and treatment of the disease. This work will be first tried in some of the counties where the infection is heavy. We hope that it will serve to restore to health a large number of our citizens who otherwise will not seek treatment; that it will exercise a wonderful educational influence on our people generally, looking to the cure and prevention of hookworm and other diseases; and that it will bring the physicians and people closer together and cause the campaign against the disease and poor sanitary conditions to continue even after the dispensaries or hospitals have gone to new fields. Before entering a county we shall ask for the endorsement and support of the physicians, the county boards of health and education, and for endorsement and some financial support from the county commissioners. At least one district director and one laboratory man will be found at the appointed times at the dispensaries. Free microscopic examinations will be made, and when found positive, the medicine will bQ handed to the patient to be taken after returning home. At the hospital the examination will be made and if infection is found the patient will be put to bed and the medicine administered at the hospital. When one treatment is complete the patient will be allowed to go home. In a few days he will return for a second examination, and if still infected will be given a second treatment, etc. The necessary tents, cots, etc., for this hospital have been secured as a loan from the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. The plan is working nicely in two States. A large number of physicians have already endorsed the plan of work. We would be glad to know it will meet with the approval of the Medical Society as a whole. Though the campaign is still in its infancy, we are encouraged by the accomplishments above enumerated and by the perceptible swinging of public sentiment from its humorous, indifferent or resentful mood to a serious and responsive attitude. The splendid sympathetic spirit found to exist among our doctors, editors, educators, legislators, and the people generally is encouragement sufficient to urge us on in the prosecution of the campaign and to stimulate us in the belief that the seed of effort, activity and money sown in the cause will prove prolific in the fertile soil and develop into a strong public sentiment, and give as a final harvest freedom, not alone from hookworm disease, but freedom from many other preventable diseases. Motion carried that report be received and spread upon the minutes. Dk. LAUGHiNGHorsE: I wish to introduce the following resolution: Whereas, Extensive investigation by the Hookworm Commission of the North Carolina State Board of Health in this State show hookworm infection to be widespread and rather heavy, especially in rural districts; and whereas, many of the infected ones will not seek treatment until its effectiveness is demonstrated to them; and whereas, the recognition generally of the value of treatment will serve to bring the people, doctors, and health forces together and unite them in common warfare against the disease; and whereas, with the proper and necessary support the said commission will operate a line of temporary dispensaries for the free examination and treatment of the said disease. Be it hereby resolved, That the North Carolina State Medical Society do hereby give its endorsement to the plan of campaign against hookworm disease thus far pursued and to that proposed; that the Society pledge its sup-
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-02: Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health [1909-1972] |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health [1909-1972] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Description | Publication began with the 13th (1909/1910); ceased with the 44th (1970/1972) |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : The Board, 1911- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1911-1912 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-014 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 14 |
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Fixed Title * | Page 64 |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health [1909-1972] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Description | Publication began with the 13th (1909/1910); ceased with the 44th (1970/1972) |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : The Board, 1911- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1911-1912 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-014-0068 |
Form General | Periodicals |
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Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 14 |
Page Number | 64 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | G4 IVORTH CAKOLIXA BOARD OF HEALTH A new departure in the work will be the establishment of a line of temporary dispensaries or hospitals for the free examination and treatment of the disease. This work will be first tried in some of the counties where the infection is heavy. We hope that it will serve to restore to health a large number of our citizens who otherwise will not seek treatment; that it will exercise a wonderful educational influence on our people generally, looking to the cure and prevention of hookworm and other diseases; and that it will bring the physicians and people closer together and cause the campaign against the disease and poor sanitary conditions to continue even after the dispensaries or hospitals have gone to new fields. Before entering a county we shall ask for the endorsement and support of the physicians, the county boards of health and education, and for endorsement and some financial support from the county commissioners. At least one district director and one laboratory man will be found at the appointed times at the dispensaries. Free microscopic examinations will be made, and when found positive, the medicine will bQ handed to the patient to be taken after returning home. At the hospital the examination will be made and if infection is found the patient will be put to bed and the medicine administered at the hospital. When one treatment is complete the patient will be allowed to go home. In a few days he will return for a second examination, and if still infected will be given a second treatment, etc. The necessary tents, cots, etc., for this hospital have been secured as a loan from the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. The plan is working nicely in two States. A large number of physicians have already endorsed the plan of work. We would be glad to know it will meet with the approval of the Medical Society as a whole. Though the campaign is still in its infancy, we are encouraged by the accomplishments above enumerated and by the perceptible swinging of public sentiment from its humorous, indifferent or resentful mood to a serious and responsive attitude. The splendid sympathetic spirit found to exist among our doctors, editors, educators, legislators, and the people generally is encouragement sufficient to urge us on in the prosecution of the campaign and to stimulate us in the belief that the seed of effort, activity and money sown in the cause will prove prolific in the fertile soil and develop into a strong public sentiment, and give as a final harvest freedom, not alone from hookworm disease, but freedom from many other preventable diseases. Motion carried that report be received and spread upon the minutes. Dk. LAUGHiNGHorsE: I wish to introduce the following resolution: Whereas, Extensive investigation by the Hookworm Commission of the North Carolina State Board of Health in this State show hookworm infection to be widespread and rather heavy, especially in rural districts; and whereas, many of the infected ones will not seek treatment until its effectiveness is demonstrated to them; and whereas, the recognition generally of the value of treatment will serve to bring the people, doctors, and health forces together and unite them in common warfare against the disease; and whereas, with the proper and necessary support the said commission will operate a line of temporary dispensaries for the free examination and treatment of the said disease. Be it hereby resolved, That the North Carolina State Medical Society do hereby give its endorsement to the plan of campaign against hookworm disease thus far pursued and to that proposed; that the Society pledge its sup- |
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